Improvement in salt-bottles



G. P. GROSSMAN.

Salt-Bottle.

No. 196,076. Patented Oct. 16,1877.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

CHARLES P. CROSSMAN, OF WEST WARREN, MASSACHUSETTS.

l M PRO VEM ENT IN SALT-BOTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,076, dated October 16, 1877; application filed August 10, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES R, CROSSMAN,

1 of West Warren','in the county of Worcester and State of M ssaohusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Salt- Bottles, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, convenient, and eflicient pulverizer to be placed within a salt bottle or caster, to prevent the salt or other contents thereof from becoming caked or lumped, so as to interfere with a free discharge of the same through the perforations in the cap or cover of such bottles, when shakenin the usual manner; and itconsists of a flexible corrugated spiral-wire pulverizer, made in tubular form, and rigidly connected by one end to the center of the perforated cap or cover, its lower or opposite end reaching to near the bottom of the bottle or caster, as will be hereinafter more fully explained and set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective viewof a salt-bottle having my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same removed from the bottle.

A represents a glass salt bottle or caster, provided with a perforated cap or cover, B,

' connected to the neck of the bottle by means of the wire so as to project from the top coil at a right angle and at the center of the same. The lower end of the coiled spiral corrugated 7 pulverizer reaches to near the bottom of the bottle or caster, as shown. The wire pulverizermay be tinned or coated, as desired. vThe bottle A, being filled with salt or other pulverized material desired to be discharged or sprinkled from the perforated cover, the spiral corrugated flexible pulverizer E is inserted in the bottle and the cap B screwed down in place, which act carries the lower end of the spiralwire pulverizer down into the salt in the bottle, when it is ready for use in the usual manner, when a slight shake will cause the flexible pulverizer to vibrate and thus move the salt and pulverize the same in a very thorough and expeditious manner, so it will pass through the perforations in the cap or cover freely.

The nature or construction of the pulverizer is such that it can move in every direction within the bottle, so as to prevent moist salt from caking and in case it should become caked or solidified, a sharp blow upon the bottom of the bottle with the palm of the hand will remove the same by causing the coiled spiralspring pulverizer to recoil or vibrate through the same, so as to bring its large corrugated pulverizing-surface in contact with the caked salt and reduce the same to fine particles, ready for use. This pulverizer, being somewhat free to move about within the bottle, is, by means of its suspension from the cap, prevented from striking against the bot tle to break the same, as might be the case v were it of greater w'eight and left loose or disconnected in any manner with the bottle or cap.

I am well aware that Letters Patent were granted to Hiram J. White for improvement in salt-bottles, No. 188,709, dated March 20, 1877. Therefore I broadly disclaim such invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I I claim is- The above-described pulverizer, consisting of the flexible spiral corrugated wire E, rigidly connected to the perforated cap or cover B, in

- combination with the salt bottle or caster A,

all being constructed and arranged as and for the purposes set forth.

CHAS. P. CROSSMAN.

Witnesses CHAS. G. MORGAN, DANIEL G. HITCHCOCK. 

